Tag: Passion

Anchor Away

Anchored down on a windy day
Feeling all the love through heartache
Gut wrenching turns; feeling the burn
Time to make use of what I’ve learned

Baby let it rain
Let me soak your pain!

I’m on my knees but not to pray
Looking for every single way
Pleading to the crying skies
Drawing on my strength inside

Baby let it rain
Let me soak your pain!
Anchor’s aweigh!
Anchor’s aweigh!

Let’s sail far away
Forget yesterday!
Live for today
Put that anchor away!

Originally Published January 22, 2013

Special note from author on June 26, 2023

I wrote this as a poem and it very quickly became a song. I never did a high quality recording of it but I do have the original recording in a file somewhere.

The message of this song is as bittersweet as the music I wrote to go with it. The person it is about is someone I have not talked to in years and may never talk to again but she knows who she is.

This Too Shall Pass

Like a feather floating free sparking chemistry,
The winds of change always follow me.
The courage to believe anything I dream,
Take my hand so you can be my beam
Of radiating light, be my warmth tonight.
I would never grow tired of your sight!
But things can never be as beautiful as they seem
How was this nightmare ever my dream?

Now there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide,
From this weakness tearing me apart inside.
I’ll try to swallow my pain, I’ll go drown in the rain
But I’ll never speak poorly of your beautiful name

This load is mine to bear, it’s burden I’d never share
Nor would I ever want you to think I don’t care.
So when the pain is there, find a star and stare
Remember somewhere there’s someone who cares.
The apple of my eye to the day the music died
I’ll never forget the way you made me feel inside.
This anguish will insist on kicking my ass
But my sweet darling, this too shall pass.

Originally Published December 30, 2012

Special note from author on June 26, 2023

Second chances don’t always change destiny. Lesson learned.